Former Super Eagles head coach, Samson Siasia, in a video that went viral has called for financial support from Nigerians to help him seek legal services to overturn his suspension by FIFA.

World governing football body FIFA banned Samson Siasia for life and fined him $50,000 for agreeing to receive bribe in the manipulation of matches, according to a statement from FIFA.

Siaisa was banned for life from participating in all football matches by the world football governing body, FIFA in 2019 after he was found guilty of accepting bribes in order to manipulate matches.

Reacting to this, the former Nigeria coach filed an appeal with FIFA and the Court of Arbitration for Sport against the life ban.

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Siasia decided to reach out to Nigerians to help him raise funds so he can be able to defend himself and hopefully overturn the lifetime ban placed on him by the world football governing body.

In the short video, the former Nigeria coach said;

“Good day Nigerians, my name is Samson Siasia. I am coming to you at a very difficult time in my life and career. I need to raise the sum of €250,000. That’s a lot of money. So l am appealing to all well-meaning Nigerians, the sports-loving Nigerians to come to my aid for me to use these funds to defend myself against FIFA. We have this calculation, if 200,000 people can give N500 each, we could be able to reach our target. I wanna thank you as you do this. God bless you”. Said Siaisa.